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We urgently need much more if this. Landscape-scale ecological restoration. @GillianMSP @MairiGougeon @MairiMcAllan @JimFairlieLogie

@wyllie_cameron They are not removing assessment. Anyway we can chat next time I see you as my reports are due in tomorrow 😬

@RewildScotland But they are banning exams

Let that sink in when you are deciding which party to vote for in May.

@wyllie_cameron Yup

@RewildScotland Summative assessments like…exams?

@wyllie_cameron Properly designed CA which can include summative assessments does not have to disadvantage pupils.

@RewildScotland Continuous assessment benefits kids coming from houses with books and highly educated parents and tutors and tech savvy people. In fact the SQA will soon be forced to reduce continuous assessment by universities.

@wyllie_cameron It doesn’t have to if implemented and supported appropriately but it would all depend on other improvements such as on behaviour, increased investment and wider action on poverty, substance abuse etc etc etc

@RewildScotland Continuous assessment would make it worse.

@wyllie_cameron I would certainly agree that narrowing the attainment gap has been a massive failure.

@RewildScotland Also - as you will realise - continuous assessment massively advantages the middle class.

@wyllie_cameron The greens may well be asked to help form a govt.

@RewildScotland They could not replace the Highers and Advanced Highers with continuous assessment and expect unis to agree. In any case they won’t be in power so it won’t happen. Good young voter bait though.

@wyllie_cameron Well highers and advance highers don’t appear to be doing much for young people in the most deprived areas.

@wyllie_cameron A fair % of Nat5 is already continuous assessment. It can work.

@RewildScotland Arguably. In fact AI will mean a return to exam diets in halls. And they would NEVER be able to get agreement from HE institutions outside Scotland.

Continuous assessment is a better way of measuring a pupil’s understanding. Clearly before removing the outdated exam system they would need to agree with universities the evidence that would need to be gathered. Arguably it would be a better guide to their likely success at Uni and life.

@RewildScotland And no exams. Right when AI is about to rule!

@wyllie_cameron Homework as the headline is indeed a massive damp squib.

@RewildScotland They’ve just said what their headline education policies will be! Lol.

@wyllie_cameron The policy headlines will come from the manifestos and will be all over news and online. I will send CD down with a poster for your window 😉

@RewildScotland Ah but Al people don’t read manifestoes. They watch TV and look online.

@wyllie_cameron The Scottish Greens strap line is ‘For People and Planet’ Wait and read their manifesto.

@RewildScotland That’s absolutely true. But - since the Greens by and large are not headlining it as an issue - it’s never going to be one of the electorate’s top 3 concerns in this election.

@wyllie_cameron The environment is definitely an issue in this election.

@RewildScotland That may not be high on people’s concerns.

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@AgentM66 @ScottishSuffra1 and….

My grandson came home yesterday and told his mum that they had a lesson on muslims, and their religion in school that day. Today, my family decided that as Christians, catholics, and with Jewish relatives as well as women's rights activists aplenty within our family, this was not appropriate, needed, or wanted. Monday, the head teacher will have a complaint she never imagined, she will never forget and will never wish repeated.

@GivenUp97 @ScottishSuffra1 🤣

@RewildScotland @ScottishSuffra1 Lmao, straight to racism, pathetic little creature

@roberthurley @ScottishSuffra1 Oh it’s racism. Let’s not pretend.

@RewildScotland @ScottishSuffra1 It's not racism. And you're a teacher?

@ScottishSuffra1 So therefore which pages of the Bible should I miss out? 🤣

@RewildScotland Teaching impressionable children about a religion that condones child marriage, animal abuse, the stoning of women, cousin marriage, fgm, has no place in a classroom.

@antoniamaycross @ScottishSuffra1 Exactly

@ScottishSuffra1 @RewildScotland As someone raised Roman Catholic I can't help but laugh at this. You ever read the bible hun? Have you not also seen the Christian teachings used for evil? Has the organised church not also played a villainous role in history? We need to teach critical thinking and world faiths.